Tobacco Disclosure Bill Clears
Massachusetts State Legislature

a Wall Street Journal Staff Reporter

Updated July 25, 1996 12:43 a.m. ET

NEW YORK -- A Massachusetts bill that would require tobacco companies to disclose the ingredients and nicotine levels in their products sold in the state cleared its last legislative hurdle and now awaits action by the governor.

If the bill is signed, Massachusetts would become the first state to require tobacco companies to disclose the ingredients in each of their brands of cigarettes, chewing tobacco and snuff, in descending order...